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Toa Payoh () is an urban planning area and residential district located in the northern part of the Central Region of Singapore.〔()〕〔(Singapore Infopedia | Toa Payoh New Town )〕 It is bounded by Braddell Road and Bartley Road to the north, Upper Paya Lebar Road to the east, MacPherson Road and Jalan Toa Payoh to the south and Thomson Road to the west. The planning area is also home to Toa Payoh New Town, the second satellite town to be built in Singapore. It is located towards the Western end of the planning area. The New Town is a cluster of sub-zones, consisting of Toa Payoh Central, Toa Payoh West, Balestier, Lorong 8 Toa Payoh, Kim Keat, Braddell, Boon Teck and Pei Chun. The New Town, which was the result of a Housing and Development Board project in 1968, serves as the main hub of the Toa Payoh district. Towards the East are the sub-zones of Potong Pasir, Bidadari, Woodleigh, Sennett and Joo Seng. Despite sitting within the bounds of the planning area, these districts are not considered to be part of the New Town itself.〔(streetdirectory.com | Toa Payoh boundaries )〕 The constituency of Potong Pasir is managed under the Jalan Besar Town Council,〔(The Straits Times - Singapore divided into 16 towns; two new town councils created )〕 separating it from the Bishan-Toa Payoh Town Council, which manages Toa Payoh New Town. Bidadari Estate is still relatively new and is currently in its early stages of development.〔(Urban Redevelopment Authority - A Community In A Garden )〕 ==Etymology== Toa Payoh, in the Hokkien dialect, translates as "big swamp" (with ''"Toa"'' meaning ''"big"'' and ''"Payoh"'' meaning ''"swamp"''). The Malay word for swamp is ''paya''. The reference indicates the large swampy area that preceded the later development of Chinese market gardens in this area. It is the Chinese equivalent of Paya Lebar, which translates to, big swamp land. To older generation Chinese, Toa Payoh is known as ''ang chiang san'' (or ''anxiangshan'') or "burial hill" because of the cemetery located in the area. J.T. Thomson, a government surveyor, refers to Toa Payoh in his 1849 agricultural report as ''Toah Pyoh Lye'' and ''Toah Pyoh''. Whampoa or Hoo Ah Kay had an orange garden here that Johnson visited. The neglected garden which Whampoa had bought was converted into a tasteful "bel-retiro" with its avenues, front-orchard, hanging gardens, Dutch walls, bamboos and orange trees, shrubs, stags and peafowls, its aviary and menagerie and artificial curiosities of horticulture. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Toa Payoh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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